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The Dickinson press., 1887-08-20
Big Salaries in New Yo.ls.

There are Il score of men in New York WhO
arc paid rs much for their services each year
rs the president of the United States. Forty
thousand dollars year is very tidy salary
There are hundreds of men who get So5 UtO Il
year salary, and tho number who get from
Sl0,0W to S20, 900 are legion. Very ordinary
men get from $4,000 to $1,000 year, or as
much rs a cabinet officer. DR.. Norvn Green,
president of the Western Union Telegraph
company, paid S5O,ON. SO is Cl,a,lnrry NJ.
Depew, president of tho New York Central
railroad. Richard NJ. McCur,ly, president of
the Mutual Life Insurance company gets a
like amount. John Hoey, president of
Adams Express company, fares equally as
well. President Henry b. Hyde, of the
Equitable Life Insurance company, is also i'm
tho list. George q. Williams, president of
the Chemical National bank, tho richest
banking institution in America, with nearly
s5,0oO,0 GOO of surplus SO, 900, 900 average de.
posits. is paid a salary of 5000 yearly.
President Potts, of the Park bank, and Prcsi.
dent Tappan. of the Gallatin National bank,
receive IL like sum each twelve months.
The best paid minister i'll New York is Dr.
John Hall, n brainy man from the north of
Ireland, who breaches to s2OO,OO0,Oo every
Sunday. His is the smallest church in town.
He owes his rise i'll life to Robert Bonner. Of
The Ledger, who found him preaching to n
small congregation i'll Dublin, and induced
him to come to America. He gets salary
of S2O,0D year, and makes $1,000 by his
newspaper and magazine articles. He is
given luxuriously furnished house as well.
DIR. Morgan Dix, the chief pastor of Trinity
church corporation, tho wealthest in Amer
ica receives S1E ono YEARLY Dr William,
Taylor, of the Broadway Tabernacle gets
the same amount. He does literary work
and lectllring that brings his income up to
$4,000 DIR. Charles Hall, of the Fifth
avenue Presbyterian church, is paid $4,000
He is very eloquent, and his church is crowded
at all services. DIR. Parkhurst, of Madison
Square church, gets $4,000. He has {, large
and distinguished congregation Cyrus w.
Field is one of the pillars of the church, DR..
Paxton, who breaches to Jay Gould and
others less wealthy, is paid sl5,o0O. The
Rev. DIR. Robert Collyer, the blacksmith
preacher, is paid lo,oo0.-Washington Post.
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South American Railroads.

Railroads are gradually being extended
toward Bolivia from the eastern slope Of the
Andes, although for years past the line built
at such vast cost by Peru from the Pacific to
Puno has not passed that lake town toward
the Bolivian fro>tier. The fault that it has
not been extended lies entirely with Bolivia.
Peru used every exertion and incurred an
enormous debt to build one of the most diff
cult roads yet constructed in the world, and
although the engines still climb the steep
gradients and pass through the wids Of
Cahuiantala on their way to Puno, no effort
is made by Bolivia to extend tue road toward
the Dcsaguatlero, and thence on to the re-
gions where the \ Armara Indians pass their
lives in that happy state which can only Ike
understood by those who, like them, believe
that where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be
wise. Peru, through necessity it is true, and
not by any means from choice, not being able
to assist her neighbor with money to carry q
railroad into her territory, the Argentine
republic appears to be about to take an in
tere,t in the matter and to make an effort to
Join the Trausandinc lines with the central
part of Bolivia, where agricultural and
mineral riches abound which would well re-
pay transportation to the coast.
Referring to the steps which have been
taken for this purpose, Buenos Ayres papers
now report that after nineteen months of
severe labor the engineers have sent in the
preliminary plans for road to Quiaca, on
the Bolivian frontier. These plans have been
made from the junction at Salta, through the
Toro ravine, AMI up to Quiaca. Thence the
Humulol,uaca ravine is followed to Juijui.
The distance surveyed amounts to 100 kilo-
meters, OF which number 225 are situated in
the Juijui line. After careful study a selec-
ton will be made between the two roads
mentioned, and work will then be commenced
on the line which will carry Argentine pas
sengers to the Bolivian frontier.-Chicago
Herald.
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Washington market is the cause tol' tho OK
istcncc Of the most singular Of the Slams Of
New York. There has grown vi, near tl.9
great food bazaar population Of rs si!tless
and degraded poor as we ,I!eitcr-people who
expect to procure most OF what :hey eat ly
picking it up out of vast" barrels and bas-
kcts of the butchers, ,i-IEongers and frniterers
Of the market. They send their chiliren to
collect this innutritious and ofton umwhllr-
some waste. and seldom buy anything except
bread, sugar, tea or coffee, which thy re-
gard as luxurics, to be Dispersed with when-
ever their llencss, drunkenness anil sl.!ft
lessncss prevent their huyin3 them Thy
live more chcaply, but no'lius like a5 well
as the thrifty Germans Of Cannon street ~
tho far east s" who cluster ii! "ro%d' upP"-
site the shabby basement Of n Trut"n. whp
contracts with the principal ho'eis To ,;I!ie
their table and kitchen lra.in,S a we.l Is
swil for mex. to nothing, AMI iii2, BRINGING
his load home III n wagon, sort c'It ii. cake,
pudding poultry, !u'a,. "c"ctl9 "!il fruit
often a.rca,!y separated in erarael dI.hes.
paper parcels and tins-anl doles them cut
so generously that + II five cents 4 family can
have meal, ail for twenty five cents
enough Of everything to keep Il household n
day-Ncw York L"tter.
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whito House Carpets.

At last the East room is to have new car
pet, and President and Mrs Cleveland will
have the pleasure of seeing the American
people enjoy it to their hearts content. The
old one having been worn to the floor in sew
eral places, q new ono has been purchased.
which is Of n rich cream ground, relieved by
bewilderng profusion of woven flowers and
vines, rich i'll color. The East room, where
Mrs. John Quincy Adams used to dry her
clothes on Mondays, and where, in a later
day, gallons of rum punch were partially con-
sumed and partially spilled and partially
trampled into the carpeted floor, is eighty
feet long and forty feet wide. The carpet,
which yields up the unequal contest Of l>>7,
weighs $50 pounds, or nearly ton 1t was
cleaned by machine process in 1856 for the
first time, the machine having breadth of
forty-two feet. All previous cleanings have
Been done by hand. The State dining room,
which is forty feet long by thirty feet wide,
uses 200 yards of carpetins Washington
Hatchet.
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Tie Sandwich Man.

A tall, gaunt man, dressed i'll bucksSin
with u helmet Of feathers crowning features
lronzed by the SUI, can be seen every day
perambulnting Ann street. Sometimes ho
carries pair of Indian clubs slung over his
broad shoulders. His name is Long Pete
and he is Canadian Indian He makes
living by exhibiting his person on the streets
He is unskilled in any other kind of labor.
Sometimes dressed like Sioux clieftain he
walks weary miles of sidewalk in the inter-
ests Of patent medicine houses who have the
latest "Indian remedy" to advertise; at others
he appears in full war paint to boom tho
business of dealers in dumb bells, Indian
clubs, trapezes and old rags.
Hundreds OF men are in the same line of
business Some confinc themselves exclu.
sivcly to restaurant advertising, and walk rs
animated sandwiches" all cycsorc to the
public gaze. They make on all average 81 a
day. They have a labor organization Of their
own, but as every member is walking dele
gate few benefits have come of t-New York
Mail and Express
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The Homes of England.

1t is very delightful to find ones self in one
of these English country residences. Tho
house is commonly old, and has history 1t
is oftentimes itself record, like that old
farm house my friend John Bellows, wrote to
me about which chronicled half dozen
reigns by architectural marks as exactly as if
it had been an official register. "The stately
homes of England" as we see them at Wilton
and Longfori castle, are not more admirable
in their splendors than "the blessed homes of
England" in their modest beauty. Every
where one may see there old parsonages by
the side Of ivy mantled churches and the
comfortable mansions where generations of
country squires have lived in peace, while
their sons have gone forth to fight England's
battles and carry her flags of war and COM
merce all over the world. We in America
can hardly be said to have such possession
as a family home. We encamp-not under
canvas, but in fabrics of wood or moro last-
ing materials, which are pulled down after IL
brief occupancy by the builders, and possibly
their children, or are modernized so that the
former dwellers i'll them would never recos-
nize their old hnbitations. WendcD
Holmes in Atlantic.
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NEW Works STREET BEGGAR.

The Night Menticant or Alcoholic Skulkcr
Who is Peculiarly Offensive.
The New York street beggar-that breed of
him that infests the town after dark, mean
is getting to be as noteworthy for his i'm
pudence as the beggar in Europe is for his
scrvility. 1t is generally understood that
when you nsk favors from people you do it
politely The night mcnlcant in New York
apparently reverses this rule. The ether
morning i'll the small hours n filthy and aco
holic skulker on the avenue halted mo and
demanded aims. lsay demanded because the
term fits the case exactly. "Gimme the price
of a nights lodgings" said he; there's n
good feller." And he followed me ur, with
such courtly advances as 81 say, you, are you
goin' to let mo sleep out all nightf' "Gimmc
dime, do you hcar!' and so on in tho same
spirit. After had dropped him Il pale and
sickly boy, with an Intelligent face and man.
ner shyly begged me for some help.
He told story Of having come to town to
find work, being sick and homeless, and
though he may have lied his appearance gavo
credullty to his story. Such II case, 1 say it
i'll no vanity, try to never pass by, and
sent him of to look for supper and bed
My bandit of the avenue had come loating
up i'll time to see this, and tho beggar's bless
ing he gave ne was so ridiculously outrageous
us to be absolutely amusing. SO | smoked
my cigar and listened to it till the appear
nnce of a policeman put my oratorical friend
to flight The officer stated that there was
hardly night that he was not called upon
to drive one of these irsolcnt vagabonGs off
from more sensitive victims than myself
With women they are especially offensive
was strolling to his club with friend the
other evening. There was young girl,
walking ahead of us, who had come out from
church near by where service was lust
over. My friend recognized her rs his wircs
maid. At tho street corner big, suuulid
fellow lodged out of Il doorway and said
something to her. She started forward and
le seized her arm. We went to the rescue
and he shambled off, carsing. The girl said
lie was a beggar who haunted that corner
and preyed on the people coming from tho
evening services at the church. He had de-
manded money of her, and when sho ryfl,e,l
it had threatened her and seized her as we
had seen And this, like my own experience,
was on tho aristocratic residence street of
New York.-Alfred Trumble in New York
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f.. p. Koe,s idea Of Autborshin.

"It appears to me that the true impulse to-
ward authorship does not arise from desire
to please any one, but rather from strong
consciousness Of something definite to say,
whether people will listen or not. can hon
estly assert that have never manufactured a
novel, and should do so am sure it would
be so wooden and lifeess that no one would
read it. My stories have come with scarcely
any volition on my part, and their characters
control me. II should move them about
like images. they would he but images In
every book they often acted in manner just
opposite from what had planned. More
over, there are unwritten stories in my mind
the characters Of which are becoming almost
as real as tine people l meet daily. While
composing narratives forget everything and
live in an ideal world, which, nevertheless, is
real for the time. The fortunes of the char
acters affect one deeply, and truly believe
that only as feel strongly will the reader be
interested. a book, like bullet, can only go
a. far as the projecting force carries it,"
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A BlcYcLIsT IN PERSIA.
An Gncial's Keen Relish for Forbidden
Irr,it-.Driukinr ..ArrucI<,


Although Moliammulans, and particularly
''dilii' M"llamna'l;lls, are forbidden by
tIi' il rcli. lion to indulge in alcoholic levcr-
as tli. average hi i, official in Pcrsi;,is any
thing but n s;,nr,im"liuuS ilulivi,lul!. and
'altahrs with keen relish of the forbidden
fruit in an open secret manner. The thin,
transparent veil Of al,stclniouslIess that the
Persian n"i,e wears in Difference To the salcti-
nuli"iis projections of tllcmollalIs and sey,ls
and the public eye at large is cast aside al
together i'll the presence of intimate friends,
and particularly il that intimate friond is Il
Ic"mglli.
Tie Sar'cp soon after his arrival, init
mates with u humorous twinkle of tho eye
that he feels the need Of II little medicine
Mr.. Grnj-, as h""',n"s II good physician who
Knows well the constitutional requirements
Of his patient, and who knows what to pre-
sfiihe without even going through the pre-
l!mnii,ary act of feeling the pulse, produces II
pal" green bottle aiid u tumbler and pours
oul Il full dose of its contents for an adult.
tn" pa'ir!i; swallows it at u gulp, nbblcs IL
piero Of ,wce,nri,t, and strokes his stomach
in token Of approval.
"Wllat was the medicine you prescribed,
Glay:r
"llish wines. says the physician, '95 dogs
alcohol; a bollI" that the cntomologist of the
boundary commission happened to leave hero
Il year ago: il was The only thing in the house
except VINE. The patient pronounced it tho
'ir ;tirack lie ever tasted; the iericr these
fellow can ;G't it the better they like it,"
"Why, il didn't even make him gasp!"
Gasl,-nonsense; you haven't been in Per-
sia as long as have yet, or you wouldn't say
gasp even at - dogs. alcohol"
The sa.tiep strokes his beard md stomach,
c;.sts II lingering glance at the above NEIL
tened green glass bottle, smiles and replies:
"ll"Yins accomplished so wonderful u jour
II 7, Jon IN" NOW pret'ier with your rough,
EilshHv'n face than You over were before;
yoi! can now surrey yourself i'll the looking
';lss III Fame Instead Of i'll Il common mirror
thai reflects all the impcrfections Of ordinary
nortul,. Having delivered himself Of this
compliment the sartiep's eye wunders i'll tho
direction If the % dcgS. alcohol again and the
next inintte is as,.n sn!arking his lips and
rou!p'artl.tly stroiins lis stonach.-Thomas
Stevens i'll Outing.
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Was Wilkes Booth Crazy,

Secretary shepherd, of the Illinois Stnto
SphrtSinenS ASSOCIATION, was an Intimate
friend Of John Wilkes Booth The two mon
were in New Orleans shortly before the ass,s.
sination of President Lincoln. Both we're
patrons OF the same gymnasium in the CITY.
and each had a certain amount of admiration
for the other. Shepherd was in q reminiscent
mood the other day, and, among other things.
he said that lie was satisfied that Booth was
as crazy as March hare all the time he was
in New Orleans. The assassin spent n creot
deal of his time i'll the gymnasium. There
was a high platform in the building, and
Booth seemed to have n mania for j,Inlpno off
it to the floor below. He would repeat the
performance u score Of times every half hour
and, firing Of the strange exercise the assassin
would run around the room until lie had
covered from ten to n dozen miles. That
Booth was then i'll training for his mul1lerous
work there seems to be little doubt. One ,lay
he rushed up to Shepherd, and, with a fever
ish glitter in his eye, exclaimed: shepherd.
you'll hear something great about me before
many days.
Shepherd did hear the startling story of his
friends terrible deed, but nothing could con-
vince him that it was the work of n sane
man. u.-Chicago Herald
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Clara Morris Saddle Horse.

She has a mare % years old, which was
purchased in England for about sl,l0o. To
this day it is one of the best travellers around
that country. with us many affectations as u
trick pony. l was riding behind this horse
lately with Mr. Harriet, and noticed that at
u certain fork of the roads the animal began
to so like the wind. "Ah," said the driver,
''see this mink, She is afraid am going to
turn in." at road and that means drive
of several miles fur:her than should take by
this ro"i. So she fapes 80 get past it before
can not,e where the road forks. ."-"Gath"
in Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A Hopeless Case.

Omaha Mani wish you would examine
my brother; l nm afraid he is losing his
mind.
Doctor-What are the evidences of mental
alteration SO fars
"He walks the flcor all night, talks to him
self, sings all sorts of impromptu airs, turns
sonersaults, stands OH his head and yells like
wild Indian"
Effect of the heat, possibly. Get him to
drink little soda water now and then
yesterday he sharlencd butcher knife
and threatened to kill us ALL"
"Ah. see, indigestion. Try pepsine."
This morning he said lie was going to in
vest in st. Louis real estate"
Good gracious! Lock him up."-Omah;.
World
The Dickinson press., 1887-08-20
ANTELOPE GETTING SCARCE.
The Game Going Down Before tho Cur
of the HuNtarS-BalY Antelona.

The Game Going Down Before the Guns
of the HuMters-Isaby Antelope.
"Your city people who want sport and
who never do anything but fish little in the
small streams near here ought to come up to
Fort Bidwell," said Jonathan Chaplin to o
reporter.
There is the biggest lot of antelope north
of Fort Bilwell and beyond the Oregon line
lever saw. Very pretty they are, too, with
beautiful tawny skins and graceful car
riage.
Its almost pity to kill them, but they do
it. 1t won't be long till the antelope, like the
buffalo, will have to take II back seat. There
won't be any left. Nowhere else in Califor-
nia nre antelope now to bc found, and no
where contiguous to the state but on the
plains of eastern Oregon. But the latter
region Is, or much of it, already just like the
great American desert. 1t looks as though
it was too great i'll extent ami too barren to
ever lc anything else hut the home of prairie
dogs, wolves and these antelopes
"We know enough about the progress of
the country generally, though, to know that
this cannot he. Water will be brought on
the land; it will he made productive, and tho
game will 60 down before the guns of tho
hunters
"There are indeed n great many antelope
there. Two weeks ago l saw four or five
bands while crossing over from Oregon in q
wagon. There We're as many rs twenty or
thirty together i'll some of tho droves. In
| others there were from sever to dozen.
"There is no difficulty about seeing plenty
of them. We killed three and had the best
antelope steak to eat you ever saw. We only
saved out the best meat.
"Thcrc have been n good many killed lately
PARTLY for sport, partly to use as meat.
don't think the skins have been saved at all.
"Thcrc are some of the funniest little ante
lopes there You ever saw-littlo bits of deli
cate, graceful things only n couple of months
Old. Very pretty, too, they are. A fawn or
lamb doesn't begin to impress you the way
one of these cunning little antelopes does.
Women SO wild about them when they see
them. Perhaps there is no living thing, bar
ring little child, that they are so taken with
rs IL baby antelope
"Thcrc have always been lots Of antelope
Hear the Nevada line and out toward Idaho,
but think the past winter must have been
/ unusually good for them, else there wouldn't
he SO many now. There seems to I've Il good
many more than during any single year for
some time past.
"lf there is any law against killing them l
have never heard of it, aud nobody pays any
attention to it, anyhow, if there is l think
it wouldn't be a bad plan if there was such n
law, because they are now too scarce on tho
continent, generally speaking, to have them
/ killed OIL. San Francisco Examiner.
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Left ut Tuxedo Park.

kinder atmosphere for tho growth of i'll
comparable cottages is that surrounding
Tuxedo park. Invited for Friday until the
following Tuesday morning, went down ill.,
tending to study all the workings of the club,
to penetrate even to its reason for being, to
learn how many acres the park covered, and,
in fine, to supply you with the driest and
fullest statistics. But came away as ignor-
ant as went. had too good time to
bother about reasons or measure acres, and
you will have to be content with general
description. Your good resolution, doubt
less, would have been broken like mine. Soft
pleasure would have possessed you as soon as
you entered the stately park gates and been
driven for q mile and a half along the bor-
ders Of steel blue lake, and through woods
of soft and vivid green to the Manorial club
house. You would have sunk into an easy
chair on the piazza, and, while gazing over
landscape which nature and man have gar.
dcned, never once hazarded an impertinent
question.
The Tuxedo Park club house is almost too
handsome and convenient to be likened to q
manor, where one looks for moss and littlo
discomfort 1t is neither q family residence
nor n fine hotel, but it possesses the virtues of
both. The nuisances OF either train of
romplng children ana group OF young men
with cigarettes and mnoces have 10 part in
the ultra civilization of the Tuxedo club. The
bachelors, save when they are dining or dane
ing, or making calls ut the house, are banished
to an annex, and children and nurses are con-
fined in another annex, called the "kcnnel."
Surrounding the house, like fluffy chickens
about the mother hen, are the cottages, and
at the first symptoms OF danger, a burned
outlet or n dismissed cook, they find sure
refuge under her wing. At safe distance
from the habitable portion of Tuxedo, the
stables have been erected. and these COM
prise the entire stabling accommodation of
the park, for, according to stipulation in
his lease, 40 proprietor is permitted to build
private stable. Every imaginable kind of
vchicle is at the command of guests from
the tiny goat carriage upward to tile victoria
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THE sKILLFuL LISTENER.

The skillful listener, methinks. may hear
The grass blades clash in sunny field together,
The roses kissing, and the lily, whether
It laugh or sigh low in the summers ear,
The jewel dew bells of the mead ring clear,
When mornings nearing in the sweet June
weather,
The flocked hours winging, feather unto feather,
The last leaf wall at waning Of the year
Methinks from these we catch a passing song
The best of verites, perhaps, but seem
Hearing, forsooth, shy Nature on her round
When least see imaSines it; birds wood and
stream
Not only, but her silence profound,
Surprised by softer football of our dream.
John Vance Cheney in Overland.
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Worshipins Il PRAYER Book.

y missionary in Africa found IL hcathen
tribe worshipins an Episcopal prayer book,
and was encouraged to think that his lines
hai fallen in pleasant places. He wanted to
81 home when he learned that tie hcathen
Lad adopted the book rs an idol on account of
its silded edges, after eating the missionary
who owned it.-Norristown Herald
The Dickinson press., 1887-08-20
Hair Oil and Hair Dyc,

Few men use hair oil nowadays and fewer
still use dye. \ few years ago the usc of both
was common. The young scented themselves
with the oil and the fading beau and even
stail family man fought the appearance of
age by applying the latter at frequent inter-
walls. Now grayness, particularly if prema-
ture, is considered masculine charm, and
even ladies are not aversc to owning it.
Among the men who still resort to dye may
be mentioned the typical sport of the
steamers and street corners, who hates even
the semblance OF age as he hates blue laws
and determined authorities.-Philadelph
Times